Elizabeth Naramore

Biography

Elizabeth is a speaker, author, educator, coder, and open source advocate. She is the Community Development Manager for SourceForge.net, and she is very active in many open source communities. In her free time, she enjoys coding, reading, writing, painting, and seizing every opportunity to embarrass her children.

Sessions for this user

Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with - we take shortcuts to push out releases, deadlines need to be met, quick fixes slowly become the standard. In this talk, we will discuss what technical debt is, when it is acceptable and when it isn't, and strategies for effectively managing it, both on an independent and team level.